Biblical authority

Before we can rightly consider arming and organizing ourselves as
a militia, we must consider whether or not doing so is the right thing
to do. Later on we will see that we have the historical and
constitutional right to form a militia. But ultimately, right and
wrong is determined by God's will, and God's will is determined from
the Bible. Why turn to the Bible to answer our questions about right
and wrong?

If you are a Bible believer, you must be committed to following its
moral standards. If you do not believe the Bible, you should still
know and weigh what it says and use it to justify your actions to
Bible believers.

To say that the entire Bible is equally inspired word for word
does not necessarily mean that it is all of equal value or interest to
us. It simply means that word for word it all came from God.

The Bible is word for word the word of God. Therefore it is completely
true or without any errors. This is what we mean by inerrancy. Think
about it. If God knows everything (1 John 3:20) and cannot lie
(Hebrews 6:18), and if the Bible's words are God's words, then there
cannot be any mistakes in the Bible. Otherwise, God would either have
to be wrong himself or lying to us.

The fact that the Bible doesn't have any mistakes is not simply an
"academic" truth. It is of immense practical importance. Only if it is
all true can we know for sure that any particular part of it is true.
Do you want to do right by obeying a command in the Bible only to find
out later that you were wrong to do what you did? Of course not. We
need a Bible that is true throughout to have any real hope of pleasing
God.

This leads us to the final point which needs to be made about the
Bible: the Bible alone is authoritative, meaning that it, and only it,
must be completely believed and obeyed. Since all of the Bible is
God's word we cannot pick and choose what we want to obey. Since it is
all true, we cannot neglect a portion of it by raising doubts about
its reliability. Since it contains all we need for our Christian walks
we cannot appeal to something or someone besides the Bible as our
final authority on some issue.

We must make sure that whatever we do in any department of life,
including the use of force, conforms to the truth and moral principles
of the Bible.

'Jesus Christ was not a pacifist'

Christ's emphasis on love is sometimes perceived to imply that he was
a pacifist who condemned all violence and war. But this is a
misunderstanding. A close look at the Bible will show that Jesus
Christ was not a pacifist, and will demonstrate that he approved of
the justified use of deadly force.

Moral duty

When elected officials break their oath to uphold the
Constitution, it is not the patriotic citizen who is in rebellion, but
the governing official!

"For rulers hold no terror for those who do right, but for those who
do wrong. Do you want to be free from fear of the one in authority?
Then do what is right and he will commend you" (Romans 13:3). If you
do what is constitutionally right by forming a militia and the
government accuses you of wrongdoing, then in fact they have lost all
authority because they have turned away from the very thing which
legitimizes them.

Our country sprang into being and is founded on the principle of
ordinary citizens like you and me arming and organizing ourselves to
fight tyranny.

If you become convinced that the federal government is bent on
systematic violations of our personal liberties, it is your moral duty
to join with others so convinced to restore true liberty for all
Americans.

We must ask ourselves: Is there any reason to suspect that my
personal liberties are in jeopardy? Is there any indication that the
government is systematically threatening my rights? Is there any
possibility that a tyranny could be established in the United
States?

Affirmative answers to any of these questions should arouse our fervor
for liberty and motivate us to spring immediately and effectively to
arms.

It will now be demonstrated that our liberties are in jeopardy, that
our rights are systematically threatened, and that tyranny can happen
in the United States. (I am not saying it will, I'm saying it could
happen.) We will demonstrate this by examining the status of our
civil, gun, property, and state rights. First, here are some examples
of violated civil rights.

The right to life
(Fifth Amendment)

For a generation we have had legalized abortion which denies the right
of the unborn child to live. While an individual's right to privacy
cannot be restricted by the interests of the majority, they are
restricted by other individual rights. The Declaration of Independence
and the Bible both imply that the right to life is superior to the
right to privacy.

Freedom of religion
(First Amendment)

The America 2000 education program is designed to standardize the
curriculum in and centralize control of all public schools by imposing
"outcome-based" education on all school districts.

Freedom of the press
(First Amendment)

The Corporation for Public Broadcasting is a federal agency that funds
public television. PBS is by its very nature informational. Thus we
have a situation that in principle approaches having a state news
agency like foreign dictatorships and autocratic governments have.

A call to arms!

From every legitimate angle, we are justified in keeping and bearing
arms as well as forming or joining a militia independent of government
control. The Bible tells us we are morally right. The American
Revolution shows us we have the historical right. The Constitution
protects our legal right. Moreover, our Constitutional liberties are
systematically being eroded and denied. The fact that officials are
infringing gun rights on every front is simply a manifestation of
their inner tendency to empower themselves. Left unchecked, this
tendency will lead to genuine tyranny. Remember, "power corrupts and
absolute power corrupts absolutely."

So this is a pivotal point in American history. If the government is
successful in banning semi-automatic paramilitary weapons, then they
will be emboldened not only to further infringe gun rights, but to
infringe all rights. This is because the Second Amendment is the teeth
of the Bill of Rights, and assault rifles are the teeth of the Second
Amendment. Without their bite, there is nothing to prevent a draconian
state from devouring all of our precious liberties.

Your right and duty is to arm and organize yourself against further
federal and state encroachments on your liberties. At a minimum, you
should purchase and learn how to effectively use a firearm, preferably
a so-called assault rifle. The more citizens that own guns, the less
willing the government will be to threaten us. Ideally, you should
also join a local militia, committed to constitutional principles. You
need to be organized, equipped, trained, and coordinated with other
like-minded men to effectively stand up to the growing arrogance of
the federal government. It was said during the American Revolution
that "united we stand, divided we fall." This is still true today. So
arm yourself. Organize yourselves. And prepare to fight if you have
to.